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Buckland Abbey, drawn for the Monthly Museum, by N. M. Condy, 1834. Mirrored from <http://www.devon.gov.uk/library/locstudy/sc0303.html>.
Buckland Abbey, near Yelverton, Devon was built by Cistercian Monks in 1278. At the dissolution, it was bought by Sir Richard Grenville. It was sold by his grandson, another Sir Richard Grenville, to Sir Francis Drake in 1580.